1907. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
263 
AN EQUINE PILOT. 
Horse lovers will be pleased to learn 
of another opening for the nobler animal, 
which, strange to say, recognizes his brain 
rather than his muscle, and brings him 
nearer than anything else to his master, 
man. In certain large operations, in our 
lumber region, wherein the lately invented 
steam log-hauler is used the horse is em¬ 
ployed as a pilot. The log-hauler run¬ 
ning upon wheels, with spikes which dig 
into the snow, drags immense loads on 
sleds, and does away with many teams of 
horses, hut like the more highly developed 
auto, it cannot keep the road. As the 
auto needs watching lest it fall into the 
ditch, or climb the telegraph pole, so the 
log hauler, when once pointed goes 
straight for the mark, regardless of 
curves in the road. The forward end is 
supported on a sled, with shafts, into 
which a horse is harnessed and has no 
choice but to go ahead; and regard for 
his own life and limb makes him keep 
the road. However lazy he may he, 
ahead he must go until the engine stops, 
and when he has learned the road, the 
engineer pays no attention to him, hut 
devotes his time to firing and running 
his machine as if it were upon rails. In 
process of time a 30-second horse may 
be evolved which will he in great demand 
by autoists, enabling them to dispense 
with the chauffeur, and making country 
travel safer than now. When the horse 
has been taught in addition to “turn out,” 
we shall hear of no more collisions. 
Maine. _,_g. s. paine. 
AILING SHOTES. 
1 have some sick shotes. 'They are stiff in 
the bind legs. They come to the trough 
slowly, eat very little, drink some milk, but 
do not. seem to eat tlic ground feed that Is 
in the milk (corn one-half and middlings one- 
half) but eat very little corn off the cob. 
I put a bucket of wood ashes in the lot every 
once in a while. One has been off for three 
or four days, the other has come down to- 
daj r have 10 in the lot; they weigh about 
too pounds apiece. What do you recommend 
doing? n. e. r. 
Adrian, Mich. 
The prevailing price for fat porkers 
gives every man a desire to cash in as 
soon as possible. Too much feed makes 
a lazy pig, and makes possible troubles 
that would not come to them if an appetite 
caused exercise. I think this man has a 
case of rheumatism on his hands. Tt is 
a mean trouble to handle. In my own 
experience I have never known a thin pig 
that had the farm to exercise on, to 
come down with the rheumatism. The 
well-fed fat ones have given me trouble; 
sometimes they get well and sometimes 
they don't. I take it that this man is a 
strong feeder, and his pigs fat, but I am in 
doubt about the shelter and rest. Very 
likely it is damp, as more men fail on 
this point in pig feeding than any other. 
Possibly they are on a plank, or other 
hard floor, with no straight earth to ex¬ 
ercise on. The best he can do will be to 
improve sanitary conditions, give a dry 
warm nest, and keen wind from blowing 
in on them. Separate the sick ones from 
the others and feed them only what they 
will eat or drink. It is a bad plan for a 
sick or well pig to have feed always be¬ 
fore it. If the sick pigs will drink milk 
with middlings stirred in it will he the 
best feed you can give. Leave out the 
cornmeal. A healthy thrifty pig will shell 
and grind its ration of corn. Having it 
ground for him rarely pays for the ex¬ 
pense and trouble. If possible arrange the 
shelter and lots for these pigs so that they 
can have the sunshine when there is any. 
Give lot of room on the ground for exer¬ 
cise. If some bright straw can be thrown 
in the lot, and the ear corn fed to the 
well ones on this straw, and let them stir 
the straw about, hunting for the shelled 
corn, it will give them exercise. But 
their appetites should he sharp enough to 
cause them to hunt up the last grain. A 
pig’s nose always looks nice and clean 
when he hunts up his corn out of straw, 
hut he never looks inviting when he must 
eat out of the mud or other filth. The 
wood ashes fed are all right, hut if no 
salt is mixed with them, there should he 
a little. I may be wrong in the suppo¬ 
sitions that I base this on. If I am, and 
it does hot aid this man, it will keep 
some other man off the breakers. 
JOHN M. JAMISON. 
INCUBATOR HOUSE FOR DUCKS 
I have read with interest the advice of 
different poultry men on incubator houses, 
page 47. My brother and I have built 
new incubator houses lately, and have 
tried to get them as near right for incu¬ 
bator work as possible in our best judg¬ 
ment. His house is 30 x 50 x 9 feet, and 
will hold about 50 Prairie State special 
duck machines. My incubator is 20 x 30 x 8 
feet inside measurement, and will hold 18 
of the same incubators; a story and a 
Ptx s s a y r 
? r 3 
'i v v 
P/i s s a c. 
half, with feed storage on first floor and 
feather loft on next. They have an eight- 
inch wall laid hollow, and there is the 
least moisture on our walls of any solid 
brick, stone or cement walls I have visited 
yet. I would not advise anyone to use 
hollow cement blocks, as they wet 
through with every rain and are damp, 
also a good harbor for rats on a poultry 
plant. In building an incubator cellar 
one of the principal things to look after 
is a well drained location, and provide 
good ventilation, with the ceiling not too 
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